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How do I download YouTube videos that require a login? #26142
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Ditto with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Khfy4aNgo |
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Need an issue number / solution number to this duplicate issue. Can open up a new issue to collect this information if that's required. |
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I want to download this video;
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-z9ARpndyGo
Apparently it's age restricted because YouTube-DL can't download it. Neither can any of the download sites that I normally fall back on.
I tried using the --username= option, it asked for my password and then reported an error of being unable to look up account information. So that doesn't work. Yes, I tried it multiple times to be sure the name and password were correct.
The documentation say that you can pass cookies to YouTube-DL, but they have to be in a conforming format. Unfortunately the only browser that will still load YouTube for me is Opera and none of the extensions I could find will export to anything other than a "JSON" file. I've tried three different extensions that claim they will export cookies to a text file and none of them have created anything that YouTube-DL will accept.
How do I download this video?